Are crossbows still good?

[The Utility Monster]

I would very much like to know, my son play as crossbow and cry because people call him dumb, do they good?

[D0TT3RZ_]

decent, they are

[「La+ Darknesss ⸸」]

Light Crossbow is not that good without crits on higher difficulty, but decent if play on low difficulty.
Heavy Crossbow is not that good anymore, thanks to the rebalance by employee that left the company. Although it's usable on Overkill/Mayhem difficulty.
Airbow is not good on higher difficulty due the low concealment value, but decent if play on low difficulty.

[Ding]

Crits + berserk fix everything

[B〄F Altonator]

Your son should be able to play how he wants. People called some of my strategies dumb but in the end i performed a lot better than they did. Plus i had a lot more fun.

[D A N G E R !]

is this bait?

[BlackRibbon]

Originally posted by D A N G E R !:

is this bait?

[The Utility Monster]

Originally posted by D A N G E R !:

is this bait?

the part about my son playing and being called dumb is but I do actually want to know if crossbows are worthwhile

[the mysterious funnel cake]

light crossbow and air bow from h3h3 1 hit headshot on all but dozers and bossed heavy crossbows extra dmg just feels overkill if u can aim for heads theres also tjat secondary crossbow decent reloads i geuss but dmg is lacking. now tip for the litteral bows dmg may say 1200 or 2000, but you have to charge it to max for the dmg on the guns stats like a dmg ramp up if you will tho idk if explosive shots share that. and for those that say crits i wouldent agree due to single hit headshoting, unless your doing safe house nightmare

[Logan Oak Worm]

totally viable, but not the meta

[Sunday Driver]

If you aren't playing DS/OD then you can really open up your options and have a lot of fun. It'd be a shame to be narrowed into only the range that is viable at the top difficulty settings if you're not aiming just to beat those.

[Thermal Lance]

Heavy crossbow is a decent highly concealable alternative to GLs.

[Sep]

Those who call your son dumb need to get brain surgery asap.

Crossbow is still powerful especially if it was used with explosive bolt & low blow.

They fix explosive by making them no longer critical with low blow, but they certainly forgot to fix explosive bolt & explosive arrow.

[D A N G E R !]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Gum:

Originally posted by D A N G E R !:

is this bait?

the part about my son playing and being called dumb is but I do actually want to know if crossbows are worthwhile

well nope. the new meta is crit pistols

[Ace Chungus]

Formerly the light crossbow was one of the metas for the hardest difficulty but after the difficulty rebalance came out, the health values of every unit with Bulldozers being an exception was lowered on that difficulty to be the exactly the same as on Mayhem and Death Wish. That's not to say that it's anywhere near useless though, it's still really good due to its high concealment, damage and ability to pick fired bolts back up. The rest don't really stand out that much but the heavy crossbow did have its time in the spotlight back when it did 4000 damage per bolt.

That said, your son should use whatever they feel like using and judge themselves whether the thing they're using is good or not.

[BlackRibbon]

Originally posted by D A N G E R !:

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Gum:

the part about my son playing and being called dumb is but I do actually want to know if crossbows are worthwhile

well nope. the new meta is crit pistols

At least they aren't the pocket snipers from back in the day.